19yo Financial Advisor with a goal of 5 lives and $2500 annualized commission before becoming a career agent with Mass Mutual. How would you start in this business COLD? Where do you get your numbers/leads? I have no problem spending 10 hours on the phone everyday, day in and day out, but don't know where to get numbers. I have a solid basic script for long term benefits and 401k, how can I adapt it to life insurance? Can anyone give a helping hand to a newbie in the industry?

ReferenceUSA.com, usually available from your library website. Been using a lot of ZoomInfo.com also, they seem to have more updated information. MM is a solid company and you should believe in their products. Have conviction and sell your tail off.

thanks for the tip. could you provide more insight as to what you mean by "library website"? both of those services look to be costly. also, my firm enforces a "4 new client meetings" a week policy after becoming a career agent. am I too green-thumb or is that a little excessive for beginners?

I have a library card in my local library, Lee County Florida. They have a business link where you can access tons of business journals and reference lists of all sorts and demographics. ReferenceUSA is a free resource through my library website, and you can download and export all info into an excel spreadsheet.

Google search for your library and fool around on their website to see if yours is similar.

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